Due to a person leaving their job, I have inherited, with no training, admin duties to our Exchange server and I am having to learn as I go. I have several hundred disabled user accounts in Active Directory with Outlook accounts. I want to begin deleting these accounts. What impact should I expect to see on the Exchange server? What is the best practice for this task? What happens to the deleted accounts messages? Any explanation is appreciated and the simpler and more detailed the better. Thanks
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 06:15:52 -0800 (PST), rearden.sherri@wphome.com wrote: >Due to a person leaving their job, I have inherited, with no training, >admin duties to our Exchange server and I am having to learn as I go. >I have several hundred disabled user accounts in Active Directory with >Outlook accounts. I want to begin deleting these accounts. What >impact should I expect to see on the Exchange server? What is the >best practice for this task? What happens to the deleted accounts >messages? Any explanation is appreciated and the simpler and more >detailed the better. > >Thanks If you know that the users have definetely left then go to the Exchange server, run up AD Users and Computers and delete the accounts. If you wanted to save the mailboxes to PST you could reset their passwords, log on as them, set up their mail and export to PST file. There is a utility called "exmerge" but if you're so new to Exchange I probably wouldn't suggest it.
Don't be too hasty; Investigate first. Are the disabled accounts uers that left the company, resource mailboxes, or acoounts with an associated external user? If they are indeed departed users, what is the company policy on disiposition of the mail? Are there any retention requirements? Do your homework and you'll potentially save yourself a lot of grief. wrote in message news:d8bb6961-7b1a-4fa9-9774-d29851be2989@v67g2000hse.googlegroups.com... > Due to a person leaving their job, I have inherited, with no training, > admin duties to our Exchange server and I am having to learn as I go. > I have several hundred disabled user accounts in Active Directory with > Outlook accounts. I want to begin deleting these accounts. What > impact should I expect to see on the Exchange server? What is the > best practice for this task? What happens to the deleted accounts > messages? Any explanation is appreciated and the simpler and more > detailed the better. > > Thanks
